New Civs Leaked

[100Dragonstar]

Indians are now called Hindustanis
Other Civs are now more representative of more regions in India

 

[HongeyKong]

Chinese next?

 

[BoesBoesNL]

Is this real? Do they all get Elephant archers? (since Dravinian Ele archers fire 15% faster).

Also I don't think it's specified how much HP per minute Berber camel's or Berserkers regenerate with the Berber and Viking UT, so it seems odd that this is specified here.

 

[Tocaraca]

I think this is fake. If it's real, though, while these are mostly shovelware filler drivel bonuses/units, elephant archers as a regional unit that can be made from archery ranges would be HYYYYYYYPE

 

[Pancrol]

Garrison sheep in mills and ships in docks??? I'm going to have to get creative...

 

[Socksyy]

Seems legit

 

[ProudObuch]

They seem to make Elephant Archers a new regional unit, like Battle Elephants.

 

[Jaydev]

What's the source for this? Hindustanis seem to list Ele Archers as their unique unit but display a pokey-boi instead next to their Imp Camel.

 

[Tendo]

With that we would have 42 Civs, 1vs1 BO21 all Civs gettings drafted, 3vs3 BO7 all Civs getting drafted, seems acceptable.

 

[MaSmOrRa]

What's the source for this? Hindustanis seem to list Ele Archers as their unique unit but display a pokey-boi instead next to their Imp Camel.

According to reddit someone posted this on TaToH's telegram.

 

[Michaerbse]

With that we would have 42 Civs, 1vs1 BO21 all Civs gettings drafted, 3vs3 BO7 all Civs getting drafted, seems acceptable.

Also not to forget that we could have a 6x7 rectangle for civ selection

 

[Salawen]

gurjaras are to gimmicki. espeshilly the forage bush bonus and the herdeble mill mechanic.
dravidians are actelly cool.
bengalis seem to have a strong boom and strong elefants. i think bengalis are op.

 

[oozkan]

They should add option to garrison demo ships, then it will be Tatoh's favorite civ.

Wootz Steel could be very powerful against Slavs and Byzantines.

 

[SuperskinnyBLS]

Looks sick, I like the new DLC already

 

[Akos04]

Bengalis on land will be heavily dependant on the villager spawning bonus. If it's bad the civ will be bad, if it's good the civ will be good. It their only bonus because elephants are not usually viable in 1v1s. The second thing that can carry the civ is the UU, which is a chariot.
Dravidians seem to be solid. I hope these 2 civs can shake up the water meta.
Gurjaras are the same as Bengalis, if the herdable bonus is good, then the civ is good. I wonder how this civ will change your build order.
The Hindustani tech tree seem to be an early version with many inconsistencies. It says "Cavalry Archer civilization" but there is no cavalry archer bonus, elephant archers still present and the name of the infantry UU is not shown.

 

[Paint]

Dravidians are very strong if not the best on water, Bengalis probably have the best economy in the game from the Feudal Age onwards with strong elephants, probably very overpowered.

In my opinion there is nothing that indicates these are fake but probably still not 100% done since Indians still have Ele archers listed as there UU.

 

[Jaydev]

According to reddit someone posted this on TaToH's telegram.

Thanks! Some of the discussion on reddit seems to be analyzing whether this could be a fake and who would go to the trouble of creating such game-appropriate assets if it was.

Validity aside, adding more elephants when they are still so shaky balance-wise seems like a recipe for messing up a large portion of the civ roster since so many of them have eles now. But I guess that's a small concern with everything else that needs either repairing or polishing.

 

[JFK]

I like some of the ideas. Here are some observations:

• Bengalis Unique Tech in Post Imp with 150 Villager Boom would grant them +15 Pop, so a bit better than Goths.
• Bengalis +10% food trade combined with Spanish +25% gold trade could be sick in endgame team games
• Dravidians Team Bonus (+5 pop for docks) combined with better fishing ships could make them top tier in nomad-like teamgames
• Gurjaras +50% bonus damage for cavalry could turn their (potential) heavy camels into paladin shredders. Also the Camel Scout could potentially 1hit or 2hit monks (depending on the stats of the unit)

 

[GorLeon]

It looks like a well-made fake to me. This is the biggest hint:

Unless this has been leaked from a dev-only build (which may contain some details still to be corrected), it's really unlikely that this kind of typo could not be spotted by FE. If I remember correctly, they never used & in the civ info windows.

 

[akku]

Don't like the look of it. Also seem fake, 3 unique units aren't happening IMO

 

[Tocaraca]

It looks like a well-made fake to me. This is the biggest hint:

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Unless this has been leaked from a dev-only build (which may contain some details still to be corrected), it's really unlikely that this kind of typo could not be spotted by FE. If I remember correctly, they never used & in the civ info windows.

No, the "&" is just a product of the Advanced Tooltips mod, which likely overrode the new descriptions for Hindustanis, since they are just Indians but renamed. That's why it still says elephant archer as the UU

 

[MaSmOrRa]

Bengalis seem pretty much confirmed:

Which probably means the leaked civs are all legit.

 

[kalpit00]

I mean hype 4 new civs but anyone feel like if they are gonna make the Elephant archer a generic unit (probably a weaker version), then Indians/Hindustanis should get a War Elephant Archer (Basically a buff to their UU?), kinda going along the approach of Battle Elephants vs War Elephant for the Persians?

 

[Freezing_Point]

It is a bit unfortunate that when they come up with a name for this Indian-themed expansion, they can't call it Rise of the Rajahs because that was taken by a previous expansion not set on the subcontinent for some reason.

 

[LmScar12]

It is a bit unfortunate that when they come up with a name for this Indian-themed expansion, they can't call it Rise of the Rajahs because that was taken by a previous expansion not set on the subcontinent for some reason.

Just name it Return of the Rajas 11